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Saturday, December 6, 2008
Programming a neural net
Programming a neural net is not a big hairy deal. The easiest way to get a good grounding is to log onto Cornell's open source courseware and look for something in about 4th year computer science.
You need:
1) A basic understanding of probability and markov chains
2) The ability to write a tiny little module that takes a single input value and returns one of up to three or four values with stated probability. This will be your node, and you will have as many of them as you can put up with in your net.
3) The ability to use object oriented programming (to create a node class that replicates them a bit more elegantly) and some sense of good structure would save a lot of work and be more elegant besides. Other little things might be useful.
It's really handy to write out your structure on paper before you start - are you familiar with finite state automata? - You want diagrams that look a bit like those. It helps. It also helps to know what you will get your net to do, and how you will teach it - again this comes down to structure, and courseware is really handy for providing examples. Here at UBC the course is at the 400 level, and I think the textbook is cited online. I will try and remember to attach a few links here when orkut is not being overrun by rabid monkeys.
New Nero StartSmart
Nero Burning ROM, commonly called just Nero, is a popular optical disc authoring program for Microsoft Windows and Linux by Nero AG. Now the program is usually a part of various software suites, such as Nero 9 with various features and designation. Nero 9 is the next generation of the world's most trusted integrated digital media and home entertainment software suite. It features new cutting-edge functionality that makes enjoying digital media content simple. This easy-to-use yet powerful multimedia suite, gives you the freedom to create, rip, copy, burn, edit, share, and upload online. Whatever you want - music, video, photo, and data enjoy and share with family and friends anytime, anywhere. There are various features included in this software, let us see about some basic features and experience like Video, Music and Photo. Using the intuitive nero start smart command center of Nero 9, your digital life has never been more flexible, feasible, and fun. Whether you are recording soccer games, concerts, or family reunions, get professional results in an easy-to-use video creation and editing tool. Use the Movie Wizard template library and create entertaining movies for every occasion likes birthdays, weddings and vacations. Dust off your old CDs and LPs and digitally archive them forever. Easily manage and play your favorite music titles with new music recognition service delivers accurate song and artist information, and album art. Make all your digital photos come to life. Share the stories of your life's most memorable moments with professional photo-editing tools to correct red-eyes, crop, rotate, adjust, and enhance photo quality.
Thaler's definition of creativity
Creative Engine appears to be a lot more than it is. Thaler is taking complex data about design, materials and products, putting them into neural nets, and then injecting noise and extinction, causing strange permutations and combinations to be output, which is presumably judged and collated by another very large neural net. The selection process is still done by a human. His creative engines have no idea what the difference between a good design and a bad one is, save through whatever rules he manages to input robustly enough to survive the permutation process. I think that this shows that while a kind of creativity may be weakly approximated by dumb processes, real judgment, or analytical ability requires much more complexity or intelligence.